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adobe Indesign CS3

Course Description

This bigrockdesigns training course on Indesign cs3 is Designed for new and experienced designers alike as well as those who are migrating from other layout applications, this course covers all the basics from exploring each of its tools in depth to teaching layout principles and techniques, we demonstrate In Design’s powerful features; such as converting QuarkxPress files, formatting characters and paragraphs, setting up style sheets for better productivity, and much more.

Course Outline

Introduction to Indesign

  • Indesign Interface
  • Navigating your document
  • Rulers and measurements
  • Positioning panels
  • Saving workspaces
  • View options
  • Opening a new window

Understanding the Tools
The Tool panel

  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Contextual menus
  • Customizing menus
  • Quick Apply

Creating a New Document

  • New documents
  • Saving documents
  • Using Undo
  • Margin and column guides
  • Layout adjustment
  • Ruler guides
  • Libraries and snippets
  • Saving for CS or CS2
  • Converting QuarkXPress files

Managing Pages

  • Inserting, deleting, and moving pages
  • Sections, page numbers, and chapter numbers
  • Creating and applying master pages
  • Overriding master page items
  • Parent/Child master pages
  • Loading master pages

Text

  • Text frames
  • Typing and editing text
  • Filling with placeholder text
  • Special characters
  • Importing text
  • Threading text frames
  • Text frame options
  • Text on a path
  • The Story Editor
  • Spelling
  • Auto Correct
  • Finding and changing text
  • Text variables

Graphics

  • Importing graphics
  • Importing InDesign files
  • The Links panel
  • Embedding links
  • The Edit Original command
  • Frame fitting options
  • Transparency and Clipping Paths
  • Colorizing images
  • Turning image layers on and off
  • Copying and pasting from Illustrator

Formatting Objects
Selecting objects

  • Basic strokes and fills
  • Advanced strokes
  • Transparency
  • Drop shadows
  • Feathering
  • Other effects
  • The Eyedropper tool
  • Finding and changing object formatting


Managing Objects

  • Stacking objects
  • Layers
  • Nesting objects
  • Editing frame and path shapes
  • Corner effects
  • Grouping and locking objects
  • Aligning and distributing
  • Text wrap
  • Editing text wrap
  • Anchored objects

10. Transforming Objects

  • Duplicating
  • Rotating
  • Scaling
  • Skewing
  • Mirroring
  • The Transform Again command

11. Character Formatting

  • Basic character styling
  • Advanced character styling
  • Changing case
  • OpenType features
  • Finding and changing text formatting
  • The Find Font command

Paragraph Formatting

  • Paragraph formatting
  • Drop caps
  • Hyphenation
  • Justification
  • Tabs
  • The Align to Baseline Grid button
  • The Keep Options command
  • Paragraph rules
  • Automatic bullets
  • Numbering paragraphs

13. Styles

  • Character styles
  • Paragraph styles
  • Nested styles
  • Object styles
  • Load styles

Working with Tables

  • Creating a table
  • Adjusting rows and columns
  • Adding and deleting rows and columns
  • Formatting a table
  • Formatting cells
  • Headers and footers
  • Table styles
  • Placing graphics in cells
  • Working with Microsoft Word and Excel tables

Color

  • Creating color swatches
  • Unnamed colors
  • Tint swatches
  • Gradient swatches
  • Applying gradients
  • Overprining
  • Separations preview

Exporting

  • Exporting a PDF
  • Snippets and INX
  • Exporting stories
  • Exporting a JPEG
  • Exporting an EPS

Printing

  • Preflight
  • Packaging for output
  • The Print dialog box

Summary

who should do this course

 
This course is ideal for the learner with sound PC or MAC skills. You have a high level of expertise and wish to learn the advanced concepts

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Course Duration:
-2 days
Course Level:
-Intro/ Inter
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